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Future Cities Catapult has announced a US$1.2 million (€1 million) ‘OrganiCity’ Open Call to solve city challenges in London, Aarhus, and Santander using urban data.

Smart bike-share provider Mobike is to launch its popular bike-sharing service in Manchester and Salford, UK, where it will go live on 29 June. By simply downloading the Mobike app, finding a nearby Mobike and scanning its QR code, users will be able to pick up and ride bikes around the city.

UK communications watchdog Ofcom is proposing a consultation to open up the 5.8 GHz spectrum, which is used for tolling, to other uses including wi-fi.

Thales has signed two new fare collection contracts covering 19 new stations on the Cairo metro.

MOIA, the mobility arm of the Volkswagen Group (VW), and Hamburger Hochbahn (Hochbahn) are jointly working on the development of a new and environmentally-friendly mobility service for Hamburg, Germany.

Australian investment firm IFM, which co-owns Manchester Airport and Anglian Water, has bought the UK’s M6 toll road, reports the BBC.

Jenoptik has supplied 60 TraffiTower housings and 40 non-invasive measurement systems for static speed enforcement via its local partner, the First Joint Group, from the Ministry of the Interior in Kuwait, as part of the effort to improve traffic safety in the country.

Transport Scotland has released provisional headline figures for road casualties reported to the police in Scotland in 2016, showing 191 people were killed in reported accidents in 2016 - 23 more than in 2015.

Mobile transport ticketing specialist Masabi is to provide Fire Island Ferries, the ferry and water taxi operator serving Fire Island, New York with its JustRide Platform to deliver mobile ticketing to passengers.

The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) is planning to test the use of an autonomous bus in a cold weather climate and is to issue a request for proposals seeking partners to help demonstrate the technology.

US security systems provider ONVIF is to provide Highways England with an open standards CCTV management system for the continued expansion and management of its national highway CCTV and traffic system.

Global Traffic Technologies (GTT) is to supply the city of Green Bay in Wisconsin, US with its Opticom GPS-enabled emergency vehicle pre-emption solution at four key intersections in the city.

Phoenix Valley Metro Rail, Arizona, US has awarded Siemens the contract to build 11 new S70 light rail vehicles to help meet growing passenger needs and the next expansion of the 26-mile rail line.

Following the deployment of the automatic fare collection (AFC) systems on Phase I and II of the Delhi Metro, Thales has now delivered the AFC systems on the first section of the 79 stations of Phase III that became operational recently. Thales has installed its new-generation Dream Gates ticket gates on two stations of the metro, allowing passengers to travel using QR code on their mobile phones, said to be a first in India. With the Dream Gates solution, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has become the

IBM is to partner with BMW in a pilot of the recently-released BMW CarData, which gives 8.5 million BMW ConnectedDrive customers globally the ability to share telematics data from their BMW vehicles with third parties of their choice. As a pilot partner, IBM has integrated its Bluemix with the BMW CarData platform. Vehicle data will be enhanced by IBM Watson IoT, using cognitive and data analytics services to enable third parties, such as automotive repair shops or insurance companies, to develop customer e